From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932772Ab3B1R2r (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:28:47 -0500 Received: from mail.pr.hu ([87.242.0.5]:34230 "EHLO mail.pr.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752587Ab3B1R2p (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:28:45 -0500 Message-ID: <512F93C2.7050105@pr.hu> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:28:34 +0100 From: Boszormenyi Zoltan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Azat Khuzhin CC: lkml Subject: Re: loadavg question References: <512F4716.4050802@pr.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-Scan-Signature: 2e5eb630a1ec22e7814fe1e7a9c849de X-Spam-Tracer: backend.mail.pr.hu -2.0 20130228172703Z Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, yes, that commit is in my kernel 3.7.9 kernel source, but not in 3.3.2. Also, I have CONFIG_NO_HZ=n in my .config. I will retry with CONFIG_NO_HZ=y with 3.7.9. Thanks, Zoltán Böszörményi 2013-02-28 15:05 keltezĂ©ssel, Azat Khuzhin Ă­rta: > > Hi, > > Could you check do you have commit that mentioned here? > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1346108 > > Respectfully > Azat Khuzhin. > >From phone. > > On Feb 28, 2013 4:40 PM, "Boszormenyi Zoltan" > wrote: > > Hi, > > on an embedded PC (500MHz AMD Geode), we recently tried > to upgrade the kernel. The original version was 2.6.27, the new > ones were 3.3.x and 3.7.x. With the same userspace (a GTK based > GUI constantly querying daemons handling different pieces of > hardware over serial ports), we noticed that loadavg is different > while the idle time (95-97%) is the same. On 2.6.27, the load was > around 0.05-0.3 while on 3.3.x and 3.7.x, it quickly crawled up > to around 5. Has the load calculation changed so dramatically > after 2.6.27? > > Thanks in advance, > Zoltán BöszörmĂ©nyi > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >